The New Cold War

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
Ann Arbor, MI

CBS News team, and the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Award Prize winners for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense, David Martin and Mary Walsh, will discuss the complexities of covering critical issues of present-day national defense. While the war against terrorist organizations continues with no end in sight, a stream of new threats is emerging in space, in cyber space, and even in social media.

And now the one threat we thought was behind us – the unthinkable specter of nuclear weapons – is reemerging, both in North Korea and in Russia. The New Cold War is a lot more difficult to cover than the old one.